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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

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Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

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Instead of taking a reckless approach, it’s critical to make sure you have some key building blocks in place before going to market. It’s not just about delivering a superior product to the marketplace; rather, several stars must align,” he says. He shifted Zenefits from a service-heavy business to a SaaS model. “We

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